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"Absolutely astonishing." - TWRHQ

"As a songwriter, he is already accomplished well beyond his years, his best material calling to mind names as seemingly disparate as Jim Croce, Bon Iver, Bill Callahan and Van Morrison. But it’s as an arranger where Birnbaum truly distinguishes himself, seamlessly blending styles and incorporating his own free jazz lineage in a manner that swings from impossible beauty to unspeakable violence without warning." - My Old Kentucky Blog

"Just when you have an idea of what [Wilder Maker] is about — it’s folk, it’s experimental jazz, it’s ’60s pop, it’s art rock — the landscape shifts to a whole new view." - James Reed, The Boston Globe.